When is a Cavity Search Not a Cavity Search? Rape at Guantánamo

Today — January 11, 2017 — marks the fifteenth anniversary of the use of the United States’ military facilities at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold individuals who were detained during the war on terror. In recognition of…

Remote Sensing and Mass Graves Detection 101

When you use the term “mass graves” a couple of things tend to spring to mind. First off, you think about Nazi atrocities during the Second World War, and then secondly, if you are someone who is interested in the world of remote sensing (RS) you tend…

Digital Verification and the Battle for Aleppo

Why reverse image search is a crucial skill for today’s…

Eyes on Cameroon: Videos capture human rights violations by the security forces in the fight against Boko Haram

Dissecting a US Airstrike in Syria

Amid the grey dust and twisted metal, the young girl discovered beneath the rubble of a destroyed building in Kafr Deryan, a small town 40km west of Aleppo, is barely visible. If you look closely enough, for a split second you can see her ponytail and hair tie before…

Using object-based image analysis for automated displacement shelter identification and count

Worldwide displacement is on the rise, due to both natural disasters and complex emergencies, leading to a global displacement crisis with 65.3 million displaced people…

In the Firing Line: How Amnesty’s Digital Verification Corps changed official narratives through open source…

First View of a “Mistake” from Space: The Bombing of a Displacement camp in Nigeria

We are releasing here imagery from Amnesty International taken today over Rann in Borno State, Nigeria, the site of yesterday’s bombing of a displacement camp by the Nigerian Air Force…